Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
Ansel AdamsAll I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, โhere it is.
Ansel AdamsI believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Ansel AdamsIt is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
Ansel Adams